TIL that Fruit Bats redid the entire Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream youtu.be/E8jDhs5MuvE?...

Yeah, I have fair point. I do all of my journal writing in Quarto, so that I can swap between formats, which lets me write Quarto => Typst. If a journal requires LaTeX, you just swap the engine and Quarto produces the LaTeX file.

On INFORMS Connect, Austin Saragih (MIT) advertised their new Python package (SCGraph) for accurate distances and shortest paths in *real* road networks (and rail, maritime, multimodal). #orms Getting Started: github.com/connor-makowski/scgraph Paper and Tutorial: ssrn.com/abstract=5388845

“The radium water worked fine until his jaw came off”. WSJ article from 1990 about Eben Byers: www.scribd.com/document/188... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_By...

“Staying sane on the tenure track” by Shane Henderson. Written in 2008 but still good advice for junior faculty. people.orie.cornell.edu/shane/pubs/S... #orms

“It was carefully submitted as by A.H. Land and A.G. Doig with no indication whatever that we were both women.”

All about Markov chains #orms

This story of the discovery of Alison Doig the person is wild pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/cel...

Texas was already arguably the biggest Republican gerrymander in the nation, according to this PNAS paper by @chriskenny.bsky.social @corymccartan.com @simko.bsky.social @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper Title: Implied Integrality in Mixed-Integer Optimization Authors: Rolf van der Hulst, Matthias Walter Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07209

“We show that computing two locally optimal solutions is NP-hard for various natural unweighted local search problems, including Maximum Independent Set, Minimum Dominating Set, Max SAT, and Max Cut.”

✨ We show the integrality gap for the symmetric TSP is ≤ 4/3 when the LP solution has ≤ n+6 nonzeros. 💻 After a careful study of the TSP polytope, we reduce the problem to finitely many cases and analyze them one by one in a computer-aided proof fashion. 📄 Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07003

Of course it is: Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

This is a question that deserves a blog post answer, but I'm going to do a quick response here. Gather around children as I tell you a story from ancient times. The year was 2015... at that point, it appeared that you needed Google scale to build competitive computer vision systems. 1/x

About the Braess paradox #orms

2 weeks left!

Podcast episode on graph theory with guest Maria Chudnovsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A fun problem to model as a mixed-integer program for an #orms class

We are pleased to announce we've published all our precinct data & shapes together in GeoJSON files @ github.com/dra2020/vtd_...! This is one of several new goodies for doing research w/ DRA: medium.com/dra-2020/doi... Cheers! -- Alec, Terry, Dave (the DRA Team)

The bottom of the Supreme Court's website currently features a fun bit of trivia about the full-living color map in Karcher v. Daggett. www.supremecourt.gov

With #mip2025, the MIP Workshop returned to the University of Minnesota after a twenty-year hiatus. Can you spot any commonalities with the group photo from #mip2005?

Timo Berthold has a post called “FICO Xpress Optimization Surpasses AlphaEvolve’s Achievements” www.fico.com/blogs/best-g... #orms

Jan Kronqvist announces at the #mip2025 workshop that the MIP Competition will be from now on known as the Land-Doig MIP Competition. The winners this year are a team from the Zuse Institute Berlin, represented by Gioni Mexi, who presents their approach based on branch-and-bound with Frank-Wolfe.

Philipp Christophel is giving a lecture on implementing numerical optimization algorithms at the #mip2025 summer school, making the case for empirical research to validate algorithmic ideas and discussing how conduct it properly. 1/N

This summer’s beach read from @longformmath.bsky.social

An operations research class where half the students have access to ChatGPT during exams #orms @informs.bsky.social

“Continuity is a discrete concept—a function is either continuous or it’s not”

The latest ICS Newsletter, highlighting the 2024 ICS Awards, is out. higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/INFORMS/a4f8...

We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 ICS Student Paper Award I am joined on the award committee by: -Ryan Cory-Wright (Imperial) -Yongchun Li (Tennessee) -Young Woong Park (Iowa State) connect.informs.org/computing/aw... @ryancorywright.bsky.social @icsinforms.bsky.social

The complaint mentions prioritizing least change over “Wisconsin’s traditional redistricting criteria of minimizing county splits”

The deadline for the George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is June 2. #orms @informs.bsky.social www.informs.org/Recognizing-...

Journal version: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” -Michelangelo, cutting plane method enthusiast #orms

The extended version of our #ICALP2025 paper is now online! We try to partially bridge this gap by showing that, given certain rules for node selection, branching and bounding branch-and-bound algorithms *are* polynomial time approximation schemes! 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2504.15885

It's one banana Michael, what could it cost? Ten dollars?

“How to write a good referee report” published by ORMS Today @informs.bsky.social pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/o...

Here's an open letter to the American people, that I was proud to sign along with thousands of other members of the National Academy of Sciences #EconSky #AcademicSky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...

With SCOTUS hearing oral argument in the Louisiana case today… 🧵

“Judge Rankin emphasized that signing a legal document ‘ensures that the attorney read the document and conducted a reasonable inquiry into the existing law’ and that this duty is ‘nondelegable.’”

The fires in Oklahoma today led to several detours while getting home #okwx

Here is a very neat tool created by @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social to help you focus only on the papers posted by accounts that you follow! And here is a step-by-step to create your own feed with it: - Go to @paper-feed.bsky.social - Click on their Feeds - Pin the only item there

Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, Selma.

A new season of #DiscreteOptTalks starts this Friday at 12pm ET, with DOTs by @cathywu.bsky.social (MIT) and Manish Bansal (@virginiatech.bsky.social). Visit talks.discreteopt.com for the abstracts and subscribe at subscribe.discreteopt.com to receive the meeting link. Hope to see you there! #orms

Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, John Lewis tries to lead a march of a group of 50 Black residents of Wilcox County, Alabama to the protest the fact that the county, which is 78% Black, has *zero* Black registered voters. But helmeted police with nightsticks meet them.

The latest ICS Newsletter, highlighting the 2022 ICS Awards, is out. higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/INFORMS/a4f8...

Congratulations to Ambrogio Maria Bernardelli on successfully defending his PhD today! A great achievement after years of hard work and research. Well done!